Christianity succeeded in making life comfortable for everybody. By removing consequences, people started living the life they wanted.
God will not be mocked.
The authors don't describe exactly what they mean by that. (Would a devout Catholic describe themselves as "adhering to a Biblical world view"?)
Another point: Gen Z birth years go from 1997 to 2012. The oldest Gen Zers (aka Zoomers) are 27, the youngest 12. The Alphas are the younger cohort now.
America isn't culturally a Christian place nearly as much as it was. Almost everything was closed in Michigan on Sundays. You couldn't buy booze. You saw a lot of people with ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday.
The current best case is people are raised secular, but with religion from a young age. Thats quite different from being raised religious.
This trend seems unlikely to be reversed.
Exactly, it’s just human nature in my opinion. It’s really not shocking that the fattest, most comfortable and passively entertained people to ever exist are lacking in the spiritual department. Our culture is a spiritual victim of unprecedented material success.
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